– The Pentagon has issued a memo outlining how President Trump’s sought after military parade on Veterans Day will look. Parade will include period uniforms, airplanes but no tanks to avoid damaging infrastructure. Route will go from the White House to the Capitol.

– On This Day 1945: US firebombing of Tokyo engulfs 15.8 square miles of the city, killing about 100,000 people. wellerstein on the human toll of firebombing of Tokyo, & the events it is often compared to: the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. – nuclearsecrecy.com

– DPRK’s Kim Jong Un joked about his image in international media while serving South Korean officials local spirits and cold noodles during their unprecedented visit to Pyongyang this week. – REUTERS

– UK government considering designating Russia a state sponsor of terror, among other options. “May is said to be determined to be tougher than the UK was after the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006”

– US State Dept state dept spox: “Brutal airstrikes by Russia and the Assad regime continue, especially in Eastern Ghouta, despite the unanimous UN Security Council vote on February 24th to demand an immediate cessation of hostilities throughout Syria.”

Because I am a traveller I can look down on the birds and up at the fishes. I collect moments and can venture back in time to lost worlds. I seize life and simultaneously escape it at will. Because I am a traveller I envy no man at home.